This week Allure Beauty Blogger of the Year Shannon Ray offered some tips on transitioning away from summer's self-tanners, and we went back to the '90s for Julianne Hough's brown lipstick. Here's what we were...

Beauty bloggers are obsessed with products—scouting them, testing them, reviewing them. They also develop serious attachments to a chosen few, the favorites that they will use again and again. We asked the winner of the Allure 2012 Beauty Blogger Awards, Shannon Ray of Gloss and Dirt, and runners-up Bailey Brown, of Making Up the Midwest, and Dovey Kim, of Cute and Mundane, to share their absolute top picks.